Bezerko you suck. While on the topic of shirts I wear a medium or large to fit me nicely depending on the cut but where I run into problems is shirt length. I always find one that fit my arms and chest but end up being too damned short and show off half my stomach if I raise my arms above my shoulders.

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I've lost 15 kilos or so in the last three months so I'm in an awkward stage where large is still a bit too tight, but now XL Seems too baggy. My Esoteric shirt being the most tragic victim of "too big to wear anywhere but bed" issues. Jeans wise I've always had a bastardhead issue of needing relaxed.fit, which meant I had to buy ugly ones, but I recently found some ones that were technically skinny but if bought a size too high look pretty.good, I need to buy more now.

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Naamath wrote:

No comments, no words need it, no BM, no compromise, only grains in her face.

Jeans, and pants in general, always is an issue at the time of purchasing. I have always had to get my jeans altered (read shortened) to suit my height. Also, the thigh areas seem to be problematic while sitting. So I go for a bigger size. I wear a 34"-36" and I'm 5' 8".

In other news, I've been actually saving my money lately (something I don't normally do very well, but being dirt poor for nine months puts things in perspective), so I figured I should buy myself some new pants finally (I'm the typical metalhead with 70+ shirts and like four or five pairs of jeans). So with my newfound wealth, I walk into Walmart, and walk out with literally every single pair of jeans that could fit me comfortably. How many do you think that was?

ONE. ONE PAIR.

See, you can't tell in most photos of me because I tend to wear loose clothing (no reason I should wear XL shirts, but I do because I like the sleeves going to my elbow), but I have fucking thunder thighs. Normal upper half of my body, normal calves, even a normal ass, but thanks to the genes I inherited from my dad, my goddamn thighs are twice the size they should be. Ergo, I need to wear relaxed fit jeans, otherwise I can't even put my hands in my pockets due to it being so tight in that area. What makes this difficult is that I wear a 31' waist, so 31x32 is apparently a mythical size since every other human being on the planet has an even numbered waist size but me apparently, and almost every 31 that does exist doesn't accommodate for people that weren't drawn by fucking Tim Burton.

It sounds like you should just go for some boot cut jeans. I find relaxed/normal sizes to be meant for people with like, five percent body fat. For everybody else, that shit is just too tight. I wear boot cut jeans exclusively because I like baggy jeans, they're relaxed in the thigh/crotch area, and I can break them in so they fit me perfectly. Except I've lost a good bit of weight, so my 36/34 jeans might need to be switched to 34/34 because my belt is too big for me (in between two of the buckle holes), and the pants do that weird thing where the buttoned area of the jeans slip underneath the belt. It doesn't look too weird and it's not too big, but I do notice a sizing difference since I've lost like ten pounds.

Too bad there's only a few manufactures left that make boot cut jeans. Everybody's switched to ball-shrinking, ultra-modern slim fit for the anorexia-ridden metrosexual with .85 percent body fat.

Well, the laptop itself is well past warranty since it's almost 5 years old now.

I do have experience cracking open electronics to fix them, though most of that is for desktops.

There's no guarantee that the problem is restricted to the CPU... the laptop is an HP Touchsmart Tablet PC, when I turn it on it has these LED lights that flash in a pattern - they flash only once, which means it's a CPU. There are other "blink codes" according to the HP website.

A more daring thing I could try is to open up my laptop, which is the exact same model, and switching the CPUs. However, I don't want to break my laptop.

Or I could take it to Best Buy and see if the Geek Squad can do anything about it.

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(I've been a computer technician for the last 7~ years, take that as you will)

What I'm trying to say is that I don't think it's ANYTHING like a desktop system. You can't just pull out a processor and switch it in/out. It's made as a permanent piece. So, I believe, you'd have to replace the entire motherboard itself, with built-in CPU. And I'm not even sure that's feasible.

If it's something you just want to play with because it's dead anyways and it may be fun then I completely understand. But any computer repair place you take it to is going to tell you it's either impossible, or would cost so much money you might as well get a brand new notebook.

For the inexperienced, replacing a CPU on a desktop is hard enough. Replacing anything on a laptop is nightmarishly difficult unless you have copious experience. What I've heard from acquintances who work as computer techs, nearly all the unfixable cases they come across are laptops.

Five years is a decent age for a laptop. Especially many gaming laptops have cooling issues (and dust removal is obviously more difficult), making them heat considerably more than desktops.

For the inexperienced, replacing a CPU on a desktop is hard enough. Replacing anything on a laptop is nightmarishly difficult unless you have copious experience. What I've heard from acquintances who work as computer techs, nearly all the unfixable cases they come across are laptops.

Five years is a decent age for a laptop. Especially many gaming laptops have cooling issues (and dust removal is obviously more difficult), making them heat considerably more than desktops.

How about replacing a hard drive? The Asus I bought in August has two separate hard drives and I'd like to replace the one containing the OS with a solid state drive, which I've been told is actually possible unlike most other laptop-hardware-replacements.

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demonomania wrote:

A gritty "Leprechaun In the IRA" reboot sounds pretty awesome, actually. Sample line - "Come have a taste of me lucky ARMS!"

It depends on the case. Some cases I've seen make it surprisingly easy: you only have to unscrew & remove one small, separate plate from the bottom to reach the HD. The location of the HD varies between models; sometimes it can be in a very tricky place.

For the inexperienced, replacing a CPU on a desktop is hard enough. Replacing anything on a laptop is nightmarishly difficult unless you have copious experience. What I've heard from acquintances who work as computer techs, nearly all the unfixable cases they come across are laptops.

Not really. The only hard part about working on laptops is that 90% of the time you have to custom order specific parts from the manufacturer which can be pricey. Because of that I tell my clients I refuse to work on it unless they're willing to pay 200+ for a keyboard on a ten year old laptop.

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Zodijackyl wrote:

A girl invited me to "Sleep with her" and I ended up at a stoner doom show.

Welp, looks like HMV has bit the dust. Unfortunate too, especially in my location where CD stores are few and far between. I guess it'll be strictly ordering online and whatever I can salvage from the 2 or 3 used stores in this province from now on.

I had a random dip in my mood today, to the point of near-depression and I couldn't figure out why. After a bit of reading on Google, I arrived at this conclusion: FAST FOOD = BAD MOOD. I know it causes grogginess, cognitive slowness and similar things, but I never really thought about mood swings. I chuckled and said to myself, "you motherfucker."

Welp, looks like HMV has bit the dust. Unfortunate too, especially in my location where CD stores are few and far between. I guess it'll be strictly ordering online and whatever I can salvage from the 2 or 3 used stores in this province from now on.

I suppose this was inevitable. People have been joking about them having to go out of business soon for at least half a dozen years. Their selection has just been getting worse and worse and they've become less about just selling CD's anyway. Dinosaurs will die. I will miss the mega HMV in Montreal tonight, though, it actually has a lot of great stuff. Hopefully them going out of business will help sales for independent stores.

I had a random dip in my mood today, to the point of near-depression and I couldn't figure out why. After a bit of reading on Google, I arrived at this conclusion: FAST FOOD = BAD MOOD. I know it causes grogginess, cognitive slowness and similar things, but I never really thought about mood swings. I chuckled and said to myself, "you motherfucker."

I don't know about mood swings, don't get too many of those but Fast Food = Bad (in general)

Blimey, I've been munching away on burgers, sandwiches, pizzas for close to a month now and I've realized I've been feeling weaker than when I used to have a somewhat balanced diet. I'm also starting to see more hair fall. I'm saying this out loud in an IronSheik kinda way, "Fastfood, you no good piece of shit, I will make you humble".

Yeah I hear that. I don't eat fast food that often but I eat a ton of processed microwavable crap. If it weren't so god damn hot outside all the time I wouldn't have a problem going on ten mile hikes every other day... but yeah. 90 degree weather can take a toll on you.

And during winter it's too cold

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Zodijackyl wrote:

A girl invited me to "Sleep with her" and I ended up at a stoner doom show.

Honestly, it's not like he posted his address or anything private or intrusive. The dude has a public myspace page for his public band. Maybe Terri was trying to draw mockery towards him but putting your work out in public, you should expect people to listen to it.